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  1. Shugoshin biases chromosomes for biorientation through condensin recruitment to the pericentromere

    Article • eLife, February 2014, eLife

    Dr Alastair R.W. Kerr

  2. Tissue specificity in the nuclear envelope supports its functional complexity

    Article • Nucleus, November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Alastair R.W. Kerr

  3. Mitotic chromosomes are compacted laterally by KIF4 and condensin and axially by topoisomerase IIα

    Article • The Journal of Cell Biology, November 2012, Rockefeller University Press

    Dr Alastair R.W. Kerr

  4. The nuclear envelope proteome differs notably between tissues

    Article • Nucleus, November 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Alastair R.W. Kerr

  5. Co-transcriptional degradation of aberrant pre-mRNA by Xrn2

    Article • The EMBO Journal, April 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alastair R.W. Kerr

  6. Many mechanisms, one entrance: membrane protein translocation into the nucleus

    Article • Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, February 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alastair R.W. Kerr

  7. Cell type-specific DNA methylation at intragenic CpG islands in the immune system

    Article • Genome Research, May 2011, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Alastair R.W. Kerr

  8. System analysis shows distinct mechanisms and common principles of nuclear envelope protein dynamics

    Article • The Journal of Cell Biology, March 2011, Rockefeller University Press

    Dr Alastair R.W. Kerr, Andrew B Goryachev

  9. Several Novel Nuclear Envelope Transmembrane Proteins Identified in Skeletal Muscle Have Cytoskeletal Associations

    Article • Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, September 2010, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Dr Alastair R.W. Kerr

  10. Orphan CpG Islands Identify Numerous Conserved Promoters in the Mammalian Genome

    Article • PLoS Genetics, September 2010, PLOS

    Dr Alastair R.W. Kerr

  11. CpG islands influence chromatin structure via the CpG-binding protein Cfp1

    Article • Nature, April 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alastair R.W. Kerr

  12. Neuronal MeCP2 Is Expressed at Near Histone-Octamer Levels and Globally Alters the Chromatin State

    Article • Molecular Cell, February 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Alastair R.W. Kerr

  13. Hairpin RNA induces secondary small interfering RNA synthesis and silencing in trans in fission yeast

    Article • EMBO Reports, January 2010, EMBO

    Dr Alastair R.W. Kerr

  14. H3 K36 Methylation Helps Determine the Timing of Cdc45 Association with Replication Origins

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2009, PLOS

    Dr Alastair R.W. Kerr

  15. Comparative proteomic analyses of the nuclear envelope and pore complex suggests a wide range of heretofore unexpected functions

    Article • Journal of Proteomics, February 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Alastair R.W. Kerr

  16. Evolution by leaps: gene duplication in bacteria

    Article • Biology Direct, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alastair R.W. Kerr

  17. Molecular and Genetic Analysis of Condensin Function in Vertebrate Cells

    Article • Molecular Biology of the Cell, April 2008, American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

    Dr Alastair R.W. Kerr

  18. A promoter-hijack strategy for conditional shutdown of multiply spliced essential cell cycle genes

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2008, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Alastair R.W. Kerr

  19. CpG methylation is targeted to transcription units in an invertebrate genome

    Article • Genome Research, March 2007, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Alastair R.W. Kerr

  20. Systematic base composition variation around the genome of Mycoplasma genitalium, but not Mycoplasma pneumoniae

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, September 1997

    Dr Alastair R.W. Kerr